POETRY PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, REVIEWS 2016
THE SAMARITAN MACHINE – STRIDER MARCUS JONES
this field pond
is only my
dissolved
imagination-
thought drops
of summer rain
making fractal ripples
drumbeat on skin.
a portal shared
with cawing crows
reveals
who scams and snoops and shoots
in contract conversations.
this windsong
of Virginia Creeper,
ruling Bear and Wolfsbane
rustling in black bamboo
trusts its Samaritan Machine
telling it who to redact
in this imposed
dystopian
equilibrium
of dumbed-down masses
worshipping Carousel.
The Samaritan Machine – Strider Marcus Jones
**PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT**
‘The Samaritan Machine’
Strider Marcus Jones has graced us yet again with one of his surrealist dreamscapes. Juxtaposing the urban, and tenuously justified, murderous machinations of ‘Person of Interest’ with the exotic flora of three continents, Strider shows us that not all horror comes in aesthetically displeasing forms. That travesty happens on the sunniest of days, during the warmest of rains, amidst the call of birds, and often takes advantage of a society stupefied by the elegance and/or distractions encircling them, again and again and again.
http://www.thebeesaredead.com/…/samaritan-machine-strider-…/
Really chuffed to have a poem in The Recusant http://www.therecusant.org.uk/
Strider Marcus Jones
Weeds Left
weeds left,
wilt in the sun
without work and water.
their seeds
are the wild flowers,
waiting for volcanic wind
and ash to fall,
so the fertile cinders
can colonise herbaceous borders
ending the old age
of selfish sediment
treading it down
in molecules of time.
another Marxist
dons his trench coat
and tears pages from his red book
planting the old words
of revolution
in minds of homogenous compost.
over-privileged gallows begin to swing.
bullets sweat in their chambers
waiting for the right heads.
Strider Marcus Jones © 2016
http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/strider-marcus-jones-poem/4593300107
Delighted to have 5 poems in the TRIBUTE-Pirates Anthology http://writingknightspress.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/tribute-pirates-anthology.html
The Bees Are Dead: **PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT** Well, it’s not very often that you’ll see a rhyming poem on a hip-and-happening, politically conscious, pessimistically grey-scale webzine such as The Bees Are Dead. But. ‘The Mad Hatter Hiding in Dark Matter’ is a masterpiece of timing and chiming that manages to click its fingers to the beat of dystopian dissonance. Strider Marcus Jones serves us bombs and the disparity of privilege in pill-form, helping us to wash it down with a cup of steaming farce and surrealism. Best read aloud. http://www.thebeesaredead.com/…/mad-hatter-hiding-dark-mat…/
THE MAD HATTER HIDING IN DARK MATTER
in our house
i binned the radio
for playing Strauss-
left the suited rodeo
of casino Faust
and shot the gentry shooting grouse.
into the wild garden
without spun jargon
we went
through rusting arch of rose dissent
onto the precipice of peace
where slush borders grip and grease
like usurping tectonic plates
shapeshifting smaller states.
their innocents bombed and dispossessed
join our shoaled oppressed
of obedient possessed-
while The Mad Hatter
hiding in Dark Matter-
says blame them, instead of Strauss
in suits playing casino Faust
and enslaving gentry shooting grouse.
Gloopy Bitumen by Strider Marcus Jones
don’t wait for me,
i’ve got to go
before the treason
on the grassy knoll
that broke a generations
golden dream,
becomes sanguinary
back to stream.
each time a hero comes-
he falls,
God made a Black man King-
uniting races, breaching walls
to make just history
begin,
all gunned down
but seeds sown in.
Marx and Engels
told the truth,
while Che and Lenin
gave it youth-
but power picks, the scabs of politics,
infesting minds and skin-
silencing subversive lips
in shoals of gloopy bitumen.
riding
on the back of Eagle,
imitating
acting legal-
two Brothers
of the Gold and Blood,
homogenise
the neighbourhood;
but Others
shun these hand me downs,
and gather
in Their fields and towns-
questioning
this status quo-
with lores and lost philosophies
to mend this Age we break and sow.
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant…
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Gloopy Bitumen by Strider Marcus Jones
don’t wait for me, i’ve got to go before the treason on the grassy knoll that broke a generations golden dream, becomes sanguinary back to stream. each time a hero comes- he falls, God …
Chuffed to have some of my love poems in The Children of Orpheus Anthology – Edited by Rebecca Anne Banks and Bruce Kauffman https://www.amazon.com/Children-Orpheus-Rebecca-Anne-Banks/dp/1539563235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477253511&sr=8-1&keywords=strider+marcus+jones
The Children of Orpheus Anthology features the writings of Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, Stephen Bett, Strider Marcus Jones, Zo-Alonzo Gross, Alexia Zakariya, Jeevan Bhagwat, Gregg Dotoli, Michael Thomas Allen, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Cassy Welburn, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Bekah Steimel, Megan Merchant, Elizabeth Beck, Lila Hope-Simpson, Su Zi, Jennifer Footman, Judy Hall, Kenneth Kesner, Psalm A Praise, Edilson A. Ferreira, Rebecca Anne Banks. The Children of Orpheus poetry anthology was lovingly edited by Rebecca Anne Banks and Bruce Kauffman. The Anthology is available at Amazon Station. Proceeds from the Anthology sale will be donated to the Chez Doris Drop-In Centre for Women in Montreal. http://www.subterraneanbluepoetry.com “for those subterranean blues”
Delighted to join other fine poets in mgversion2>datura mgv2_86 | Proletarian Literature | 10_16 edited by Walter Ruhlmann & Jan Bardeau. The perfect home for my 3 poems:”The Samaritan Machine”, “Boots of Harley”, and “Submissive in Sub-Human Herds”
Red Sky by Strider Marcus Jones
i forgot to put my image in a photograph.
it was walking with a crowd inside a dream;
humming songs, that once turned on a phonograph
who have left this herd, unseen-
to its shadows of indifference
and coats pulled-to in self defence,
searching for omnipotence-
red sky too intense.
do i stay, or go now?
work it out for me?
what is left to grow now?
to make, and be?
black doors in the distance,
let in specific light,
while opposites of resistance
limbo in twilight-
like wicks without matches,
living in opaque eyed hatches
and wired stone-
drawing heavy bolts and nervous latches
for pawn heroes, in cold dispatches,
now splinters of bone,
not coming home.
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five…
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Delighted to have six poems in A New Ulster Issue 49. Thankye editor – Amos Greig http://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_49?e=13419764/39350466
The Secret Self by Strider Marcus Jones
go on, fly
in cobolt sky
doing things you can’t say
random anyway-
out of sounds and words
above the hounds and herds.
see beyond
cold concrete stood on clay,
inside absurd wronged
images dismay-
and cast off doubt about
the mask we wear without:
for what is self-
displayed to others on a shelf
to touch and read the label,
or buy and taste with pleasure on feasts table-
while holding back
the secret self, for someone we lack.
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusj…. reveal a maverick moving between forests, mountains, cities and coasts playing his saxophone and clarinet in warm solitude. His poetry has been published in the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Wales, France, Spain, India…
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A Ten Question Interview With The Artist… Strider Marcus Jones
Why do you write? I like the company of people but prefer solitude. I like to listen to people talk, the way they see it and say it. Poetry is real life actions and their chain of consequences, mat…
Source: A Ten Question Interview With The Artist… Strider Marcus Jones
Delighted to have 5 of my poems featured in http://www.theindiefolkmusicreview.com/poetry-cafe-magazine/
Inside Out by Strider Marcus Jones https://inbetweenhangovers.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/inside-out-by-strider-marcus-jones/
the soft scent thought and taste, inside out of you, is more meant face to face, formed out of knowings new. the when and wait of it phase and age can’t brown, set to the fate of it time tick…
Midnight Bouquet by Strider Marcus Jones https://youronephonecall.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/midnight-bouquet-by-strider-marcus-jones/
i lay still watching her my desire and delight while she covered my cock in chocolate with soft silent strokes- like Modigliani painting a nude. my fingers glistened in the lamps gloaming light wit…
Chuffed to have a poem in the latest issue of Long Exposure Magazine Issue 3, July 2016 https://www.joomag.com/magazine/long-exposure-magazine-issue-3-july-2016/0977137001439977717?short
Come And See by Strider Marcus Jones (Marcus Jones) on page 48
https://www.joomag.com/magazine/long-exposure-magazine-issue-3-july-2016/0977137001439977717?short
Chuffed to have 3 poems in the 2015 Soul Fountain Anthology of Poetry http://beacon.by/e-book/the-2015-soul-fountain-anthology-of-poetry/121#/0
Delighted to have my poem “The Cup” published on page 279 of the 20th Anniversary Issue 85 of mgversion2>datura. Thanke Walter Ruhlmann formaking it one of your editors picks.http://mgversion2.free.fr/mg85
Delighted to have a poem in the April 2016 Double Anthology edition of Crack The Spine http://www.crackthespine.com/2016/04/double-anthology-release.html
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Cheryl Smart, Marléne Zadig, Ralph Monday, Geoffrey Miller, D Ferrara, Howard Brown, Lori Gravley, Robert Kerbeck, Tim Suermondt, Mary Renzi, Strider Marcus Jones, Tim Tomlinson, King Grossman, Sharon Kurtzman, Steven Fortune, Frazer Merritt, Frank Watson, Michael Brasier, Stuart Friebert, Carolyn D. Elias, Windy Lynn Harris, Suzanne O’Connell, Katharine Monger, Leslee Wright, Caseyrenée Lopez, Alan Semrow, Donna L. Emerson, Cécile Barlier, M. M. Adjarian, Joseph Fonseca, Charles Edward Brooks
Delighted to have a poem in Degenerate Literature Issue 5,2016 http://degenerateliterature.weebly.com/a-poem-by-strider-marcus-jones8203.html
Nice to have 3 poems on the Basil O’Flaherty website http://thebasiloflaherty.weebly.com/strider-marcus-jones.html
Chuffed to have three poems published in The Wolfian Issue 8, 2016 http://www.wolfianpress.com/thewolfian/wolfian-issue-8.html
A New Ulster Poetry Anthology Centenary Voices April 2016 features the work of many poets I admire and 5 of my own poems. Thankye to editor Amos Greig. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_poetry_anthology_-april/1
Cool to have a poem inVagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones Vol.4 Issue 1, 2016
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Lovely to be with Poet Friends in Anu Issue 42/A New Ulster. Thankye Amos Greig for including5 of my poems. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu_issue_42/1?e=5685859/33899434
Delighted to have 9 poems published on the Poets International website http://www.theperegrinemuse.com/PoetsInternational/strider-marcus-jones/
Honoured to have 3 poems in Deep Water Literary Journal 2016 – Issue 1 http://www.deepwaterliterary.com/journal-2016-issue-1/4591879457
Delighted to have a poem in The Angry Manifesto Issues 4&5 with Gary Beck, Phil Knight, Heath Brougher, Marc Carver, David Grouix, Mark Curtis, Michael Mcinnis, Richard Hillesley, Strider Marcus Jones, Simon Leake, Scott Thomas Outlar, Jonathan Robert Muirhead, Nicking Anne Schmitz, Diana Reed, Owen Gallagher, Richard Devereux, Paul Point, Des Mannay, Susan Evans, David Atkinson, Mark Kirkbride, Matt Duggan, John Caulfield, Bryn Fortey, Vivian Belford..
Really chuffed to have 11 poems published on The Peregrine Muse Arts/Humanities website https://sites.google.com/site/theperegrinemuseii/home/jones
Delighted to have two of my poems published in Issue 2 of The Curly Mindhttps://thecurlymindblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/life-is-flamenco-by-strider-marcus-jones/
Thrilled to have a poem published in mgv2 Issue83, January 1st 2016 http://issuu.com/mgversion2/docs/mg83
Delighted to have a poem in Thirteen Ways Magazine January 2016/Volume 2/Issue 1http://thirteenwaysmagazine.com/
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Thirteen Ways Volume II, Issue I features:
Poetry by Jennifer Clark, Richard Heby, Strider Marcus Jones, Corey Mesler, Al Ortolani, Kenneth Salzmann, and Andrea Wyatt; fiction by James Mulhern and Monika McGreal Viola; visual media by Gabriel Folli, Kelli Funkhouser, and Frank Light; and collaborative art by Willie Caldwell, Ryan McHugh, and Tanner Upthegrove.
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